By Alice Emery A bilingual interview. For Spanish please see below. In a ceremony on October 10, 2023, playwright Petrona de la Cruz received the Gilder/Coigney 2023 International Theatre Award in New York City, awarded by the League of Professional Theater Women. Among other awards, De la Cruz has also received the Rosario Castellanos Literature … Continue reading
This article is part of an ongoing partnership between HowlRound Theatre Commons and WIT Journal online. Michaela Goldhaber, current artistic director of Wry Crips, talks to the founding and early members of the disabled women’s theatre group about their history. For thirty-four years, Wry Crips Disabled Women’s Theatre Group in Berkeley, California, has been helping women … Continue reading
“Company manager is one of the hardest jobs on the show.” That’s how Producer Marcia Goldberg, who is also a partner at 321 Theatrical Management, described this pivotal role. They are the lynchpins of every Broadway production and national tour. Yet few people outside the Broadway community know what the company manager’s job is–or that … Continue reading
Oftentimes, when theater critics or historians talk about Black-Eyed Susan, they speak about downtown impresario Charles Ludlam, founder of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, with whom she worked and was close friends for twenty years. But she is an icon in her own right, worthy of her own attention and discussion. Born in Shelton, Connecticut, in the middle … Continue reading
In April of this year, Garlia Cornelia Jones-Ly, founder ofBlackboard Reading Series, a monthly play reading series focused on the work of black writers incubated by the cell in New York, and Almeria Campbell, co-curator of Blackboard Reading Series, had a conversation with Karen Evans, President and Founder of The Black Women Playwrights’ Group in Washington, DC. Evans’s group … Continue reading
In this digital age, where technology has led to increased globalization and cultural exchange, it is not rare to find theater companies who tour their work abroad. How does this travel impact an artist and a company? To answer this question, I turned to the impressive experience of Emma Rice, co-artistic director of the United … Continue reading
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